Athletics Quotes

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. (Roger Staubach)
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. View quote
Zola Budd
All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms. View quote
Camille Paglia
Athletics is a luxury. View quote
Roger Bannister
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition. View quote
Arthur Lydiard
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way? View quote
Garth Stein
I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school. View quote
Alberto Juantorena
Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998. View quote
Ato Boldon
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. View quote
Avery Brundage
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated. View quote
Bill Fagerbakke
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics. (Bob Lilly)
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top. View quote
Bob Richards
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting. View quote
Buzz Bissinger
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. View quote
Charlie Pierce
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for. View quote
Daley Thompson
I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young. View quote
Dominique Dawes
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school. View quote
Edwin Moses
Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. View quote
Herschel Walker
I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports. View quote
Joe Namath
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy. View quote
Jai Courtney
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. (Kirsty Coventry)
These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception. View quote
Oscar Pistorius
In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really. View quote
Parminder Nagra
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. View quote
Robert Huber
Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line. View quote
Ray Lewis